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Somogy
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Somogy 

a megye (district) in southwestern Hungary, in the basin of the Drava River and Lake Balaton. Area, 6,100 sq km. Population, 362,000 (1975). The administrative center of Somogy is the city of Kaposvár. Somogy is an agricultural and industrial region. A total of 41.7 percent of the gainfully employed population is engaged in agriculture, and 29.5 percent is engaged in industry and construction (1970 census). The chief crops are wheat, maize, rye, sugar beets, sunflowers, tobacco, fodder crops, and potatoes. Orchards and vineyards are cultivated, and cattle, hogs, and poultry are raised. Enterprises of the food-processing industry produce flour, butter, and sugar. Flax and hemp are also processed. Somogy manufactures machinery, crafted wooden articles, textiles, and construction materials. Natural gas is extracted near Kaposvár and in the Drava River Valley. The southern shore of Lake Balaton is a health resort.

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Information: Siotour (Shee-oh-tour), the Somogy County Tourist Office (the Southern Shore is in Somogy County), is at the intersection of Szabadsag ter and Fo utca.
Lieutenant Colonel Laszlo Gelencser of the Somogy County Police said 27 people had died at the scene, while three more died after being taken to hospital.
By looking at their marriage customs in Somogy County in Western Hungary, Szijarto recognized that the petty nobility married only locally, the middle level gentry intermarried with similarly ranked families from within the whole county, while the bene possessionati arranged marriages with families from much of Western Hungary, and even from Lower Austria and Carinthia.
 
 
 
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